A Muslim woman had her hijab repeatedly grabbed by an "aggressive" man who tried to pull it off her in a hate crime attack in central London.
The victim was walking along Oxford Street, a busy shopping district, alone when she was approached by the man who repeatedly told her to remove her headscarf.
When she refused, the attacker is said to have become more aggressive and grabbed the woman’s headscarf in an attempt to remove it by force in what police described as an Islamophobic assault.
Scotland Yard said the man managed to unpin the woman's scarf, but did not succeed in removing it from her head.
Detectives are continuing to scour CCTV as they hunt the suspect, who is described as a white man, aged between 30 and 40.
Police said he was about 5ft 5ins and of medium build, with short black greased-back hair. He was wearing a grey sweatshirt and light blue jeans.
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